Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[RoyalChick]

Time to make marmalade!

I was muddled - it is Seville Oranges for marmalade. Juice was absolutely the right way to go.
Sorry!

 

[featherhead007]

I was muddled - it is Seville Oranges for marmalade. Juice was absolutely the right way to go.
Sorry!

Okay, but you must be punished for your mistake! You need to see this!!! Get her Jaffar!… am I kidding? Jaffar would probably snuggle up to you, and bury his loving beak beside your head

 

[Marie2020]

I understand completely. Chickens help some, but they can't replace a human companion, despite their ability to steal our hearts

Tax:

Then I'm the odd one out being perfectly content with only my animal's.
It's good to see the odd friend to enjoy a good chat then catching up with my family is a joy.

@featherhead007
Just my thinking ok...

You don't need one person too keep you happy, you glow! . Be content with yourself, there's no reason whatsoever for you to be lonely. I'd like very much to be able to travel but I can't, if I was in your situation I would enjoy my journeys and just love the time I spend with my animal's.

 

[Marie2020]

Not me. I am just the humble servant to the Princesses who rule in the Chicken Palace.

Join the club bucket lady my girls keep me on the go.

 

[Marie2020]

Two little ladies ignoring my pleas too go inside. It's cold and getting dark

 

[rural mouse]

I really love those. Thank you for sharing. I keep trying to figure out how to do something like that. Hasn’t clicked quite yet given the space.

In looking closer at them, it looks like they used 4x4 fence posts for the frame. with some kind of huge spike holding them together.

 

[rural mouse]

Try using your imagination to see that picture!

photoshop. we want a pic

 

[Marie2020]

They both are so polite and kind to others........NOT.

Well that's just a dumb human's way of thinking, Bob.

Well you see you just have to accept that your intelligence doesn't anywhere reach the mind of the feathered superiority of a super chick. According too them they had behaved impeccably well.

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

Do you have a pic of how bad Butter’s molt is at this time?

I just took some pictures of her, and she was less then cooperative about it. She is roughly a week into it. The new feathers seem to be growing in quickly thankfully so hopefully in a week or two we'll be over the worst of it. Initially looking at her from a distance she doesn't look terrible, but upon closer inspection the worst parts right now are under her belly and around and under her wings and her butt. But when she poofs herself up you then see what I can feel and that is her top layer of feathers are covering loads of new pin feathers all over her body which is why I think she can't keep herself warm outside. I wanted to let her outside for a bit today, but so far it's only 34 degree's and frost all over the ground in places the sun has not touched. When I found her shivering yesterday afternoon it was 42 out so she may not go out at all today. She's been insanely picky about eating this morning, only a few pellets of commercial feed, 2 bites of wet cat food and a couple bites of a hot dog bun.
She does not look too bad here.

Under her belly, and the remaining old feathers are hiding a bare spot.

There is also bare spots under her wings but she would not cooperate to let me get pictures of those and I did not want to stress her out. She feels like she is at a good weight but tonight i'm digging out the postal scales to see exactly what she weighs since she's decided to go on a hunger strike.

 

[micstrachan]

I just took some pictures of her, and she was less then cooperative about it. She is roughly a week into it. The new feathers seem to be growing in quickly thankfully so hopefully in a week or two we'll be over the worst of it. Initially looking at her from a distance she doesn't look terrible, but upon closer inspection the worst parts right now are under her belly and around and under her wings and her butt. But when she poofs herself up you then see what I can feel and that is her top layer of feathers are covering loads of new pin feathers all over her body which is why I think she can't keep herself warm outside. I wanted to let her outside for a bit today, but so far it's only 34 degree's and frost all over the ground in places the sun has not touched. When I found her shivering yesterday afternoon it was 42 out so she may not go out at all today. She's been insanely picky about eating this morning, only a few pellets of commercial feed, 2 bites of wet cat food and a couple bites of a hot dog bun.
She does not look too bad here.
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Under her belly, and the remaining old feathers are hiding a bare spot.
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There is also bare spots under her wings but she would not cooperate to let me get pictures of those and I did not want to stress her out. She feels like she is at a good weight but tonight i'm digging out the postal scales to see exactly what she weighs since she's decided to go on a hunger strike.

Poor sweetie. I agree keeping her in for this period where she doesn’t have enough feathering to warm herself is a good idea. Maybe give her brief outings when temperatures allow and/or bring friends in for visits to ensure there’s no issue when she rejoins her flock.